# Who is the youngest oldest Doper?

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**Created:** [April 22, 2013, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-youngest-oldest-doper/656399 "2013-04-22T14:37:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2013, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-youngest-oldest-doper/656399/21 "2013-04-25T14:37:23Z")

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> [@Zeldar](#):
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> As a potential starting point in the search, try what appears to be the oldest post, based on “showpost” number.
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> [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=2](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=2)
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> There appears to be no p=1 post and p=3 is by **TubaDiva** even though it only shows as “Guest.”
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> Does anybody have the answer to “which post is the first to show an actual screen name besides “Guest””?

I think that was poster “whitetho.”

Or at least that’s what in the sig.

There may (and probably were) actual posts before then – we were not on vB to start with and IIRC we lost some posts in the transfer process to vB. This is what has survived. But geez, we’re talking 1999 here! A lot of blood under the bridge since then, yessiree.

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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2013, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-youngest-oldest-doper/656399/22 "2013-04-25T15:26:52Z")

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> [@TubaDiva](#):
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> I think that was poster “whitetho.”
> 
> Or at least that’s what in the sig.
> 
> There may (and probably were) actual posts before then – we were not on vB to start with and IIRC we lost some posts in the transfer process to vB. This is what has survived. But geez, we’re talking 1999 here! A lot of blood under the bridge since then, yessiree.

Good catch! I didn’t look carefully enough.

Somebody ought to make a sig out of

“…just adding to the blood under the bridge.” 😃

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